{"href":"https://api.simplecast.com/oembed?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcapitol-weekly-podcast.simplecast.com%2Fepisodes%2Fasm-ash-kalra-on-ab1400-pIvLvZe5","width":444,"version":"1.0","type":"rich","title":"Asm. Ash Kalra on AB 1400","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_url":"https://image.simplecastcdn.com/images/7f78d020-0ec7-4ea0-b2e4-793f60bea526/41a933ae-2f67-4fb2-8102-faf71d1248f7/ash.jpg","thumbnail_height":300,"provider_url":"https://simplecast.com","provider_name":"Simplecast","html":"<iframe src=\"https://player.simplecast.com/2385248b-4ea4-4161-9821-2d1e26429403\" height=\"200\" width=\"100%\" title=\"Asm. Ash Kalra on AB 1400\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"></iframe>","height":200,"description":"This episode we welcome California Assemblymember Ash Kalra to talk about the biggest bill of 2022 so far: AB 1400, the California Guaranteed Health Care for All Act. The bill (and a companion Constitutional amendment, ACA 11) would create Cal-Care, a single-payer healthcare system administrated by the state, guaranteeing health care for all Californians.\n\nThe bill has so far made swift headway in the Democratic-controlled Assembly: it easily passed the Health and Appropriations Committees earlier this month. The bill faces its next hurdle today, Monday, January 31 - the deadline for two-year bills to be advanced from their house of origin.\n\nKalra spoke with Capitol Weekly's John Howard and Tim Foster about his hopes for the bill, how it differs from its predecessor SB 562, and why he believes that California needs a single-payer system (as opposed to a different form of Universal Health Care.) He also reflects on the substantial campaign mounting opposition to the measure.  \n\nAnd once we got past all that, we asked him the important question: is he really an Iron Maiden fan?\n"}